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We got pink than blue due to my wifes name was too close to others. She had to do a 10 fingerprint and prove her id.
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>>I second this (and all the other posts) about Li Jiang. Very nice. We will go back.<<
Is Li Jiang near Kunming? Please tell me more. ZZ
8 hours by bus take a day in Dali on the trip very nice too.
you can also fly from Kunming directly to Dali and than take bus from Dali to Lijiang. LiJiang has many nice sites and an old downtown area you can stay in.
Another nice area is Sichuan close to Emei Shan and Qincheng shan. There are some decent cities close to this area that has nice resorts outside the city and hotels inside city. I think Emei has huts along the way that you sleep at, if you want to hike overnight. The earthquake hit this area, but things are slowly getting easier to travel there.
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I don't know much about Taoism but I know it is a venerable discipline.
The only thing I do know about it is what I read in Hung Lou Meng about the Taoist priest and the Buddhist monk.
Thanks for the thought, Jin.
The US has always been a blend of religions and people. There is room for Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism and the rest of the Asian religions in the US. You will find great ignorance of the Asian religions, and some acceptance pains. Already you can find good communities of each of these thoughts in the US and the numbers for each are growing at rates faster than just because of immigration. Look at book sales, you will find many books on these eastern religions.
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I miss the instant coffee from 7-11 over there- NOT
Actually, next time I come over here I'm bringing my own coffee, a French press and a hundred or so Splenda. Then I just need to score some 1/2 and 1/2. Maybe if I am really lucky I can find some unhomogenized whole milk and skim off the cream (yum!).
Ni has an office meeting to go to tonight at 6:00 pm so I am going to go down and ask the front desk to help me order some noodles with chicken and veggies from the place next door.
Something else that struck me when I went to the Starbucks was seeing about 30 skinny guys with outlandish hair lined up in 3 rows infront of a hair salon with a manager reading to them from a piece of paper. I didn't have my camera out, I just hope I see it again tomorrow.
One other thing that impresses me are the old people here. There are more of them out and about, and they are quite beautiful in a way I don't notice in the USA, having immense dignity, but on the other hand you see a spark of humor too.
I see a lot of female laborers. This morning I snapped a pic of some women shoveling concrete, and I see the occasional woman porter as well. I think in the last 2 decades I've seen exactly one woman working construction in the US, and she was a skilled worker swinging a hammer.
Sichuan is a big area for undocumented childern, many of the woman. They can not get many kinds of work, so construction is an option that many choose.
A great western food shop (near one of the downtown universities) is Grandma Kitchen. It is written up in many guide books and the potato salad was very good. My wife really loved it also. She brought some of her family there after we had went and they loved it also.
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You wait for the biometrics appointment letter, you do not schedule anything, USCIS will do this.
Bio letters tend to be sent out of your local ACS which may be different that your field office.
Just wait it will arrive in bit. Ours came about 1 week after the NOA letter. Being in the Lee's Summit area, maybe you will get faster processing.
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Ok, just about ready to go on a fly/drive to the following listed cities. Would love to see if any CFL'ers have a favorite Chinese Food Resturant in the following;
(Please don't ask why I'm going to be in these weird assortment of cities)
Las Vegas
Reno
Carson City
Flagstaff
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Denver
Salt Lake City
Sacramento
Stockton
I would appreciate all recommendations - you will make my life a lot better if I have some great Chinese places to take "She who would be Queen" for a great dinner. As a return payment - if anyone comes to Hawaii - I will share the secret of the $12.00 Chinese Lobster, 1 block from Waikiki.
Thanks Hawaii Mike
I would really recommend you try the best local style in each area instead of just trying to find Chinese resturants. None of these areas are really known for Chinese food. Your wife can eat great chinese in China or come to San Francisco, San Jose or SoCal for Chinese in those areas I would hunt for great local resturants that might be good.
I am lucky my wife is very open and just likes good food so we can try anyplace as long as it is good. Now my daughter really likes only chinese so we do have to let her get some, but if it is not good or made the way she wants it does not good. I get no credit taking her to bad chinese or american chinese food. I get more credit if I take her to a good local style than bad chinese.
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Thanks... she lives in Guangxi provence not Guangdong.. is that still the same procedure? They will mail it back to her? How long does that take?? Jim
If she does not live in Guangdong, she must wait for it. They mail it to a local postoffice near the embassy. It will take a few days, 1,2 or 3 or maybe longer. They do not know ahead how long. Ours was on the long side, about 5 days. Others 1 day.
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I need to see the boss in Calgary next month. Because there's a nice little China town there, I want to take the girls.
I called the Canadian government and they said a USA green card would get the girls into Canada. ...but the person on the phone said the green card was good so quickly and off the cuff that I didn't feel confident in their answer. (I know...I know...but these are my girls I'm frettin' about so cut me some slack
) Does the answer that the green card gets them in ring true with you guys? Anyone travel recently to Canada with their wife?
I don't want to get them all excited and then have to tell them they cannot come with me.
Just bring Green Card, Passport and a state id card(student ID okay). They will want to see all three if possible. I have done it from Mich into Canada several times. It is a common question adn i am sure that is whey they knew it so fast. If you do not have state id card it will be okay.
One time i got held up coming back into the US from Canada because the agent thougth that my passport was too thick (I had extra pages added) and why did I have to go to so many countries (my work requried it). You never know what the agent will say.
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hi guys,
I've had a pretty rough day today. I'm a Chinese American female teaching in Nanchang, China. A female Chinese teacher yelled at me in a community teacher's office today when I went to get water. I used English to speak with her because my Mandarin is not so great under stress. She kept yelling in Chinese over and over again how I didn't greet her. She even said, "how can you, a Chinese person coming to "China - not know how to speak Chinese!" Her tone implied I was an idiot. That was the most Mandarin I could understand, I'm sure she said other things.
In the past, I had often come into get drinking water and have even tried to make conversation with the Chinese teachers in there, but usually I would get the cold shoulder, so I stopped saying hi and had no problems all semester, until today. They ignore me and I ignore them. (I think it may have to do with them being afraid of using English to communicate with me for fear of making a mistake, or they were taught not to get to close to foreigners.) I think she thought I was being rude by not saying anything. If she thought that, she could have used a normal tone of voice with me, but she yelled and screamed, which made me feel like I was listening to someone from the countryside.
There are prejudices against me because I look Chinese (both my parents are Chinese) but I don't "act" Chinese. Many of the Chinese have blurted this out to me. I was born and raised in the US and I came to China because I wanted to know more about my ancestry and heritage. I thought it would be a learning experience. Many of the Chinese people in my experience instantly judge me and reply with "but you're Chinese! How can you not understand!" when I do something they consider wrong, use the wrong vocabulary or body mannerisms to convey my thoughts.
I've been dealing with this sort of prejudice for the last 3 teaching semesters I've been in this city. I don't know if it's just the inhabitants of this city that are so unforgiving and judgemental, or in general many of the Chinese that are not open-minded enough to understand that not all foreigners have to be blonde haired and blue eyed. Also, just because I look Chinese doesn't instantly mean I know all the habits and customs, and just because I don't, it doesn't make me rude or stupid. Aarrgghhhh.
The Chinese people in China are not at all like the Chinese people I know in the US or in movies. It may seem naive for me to say this, but this has been an unexpected and difficult learning experience for me. Must I have all my pride squashed to pieces just to try and be more accommodating and understanding towards these people? Must I justify my reason for not understanding another Chinese person by telling them I'm Chinese American, only to have them say "no , you can't be, you look Chinese." At first, I didn't say much to people but now I find myself justifying my way of thinking and doing things to Chinese people all the time and I'm so very tired of doing this. I'm kind of stuck in the middle because my viewpoints and reactions are not familiar to the Chinese people here so they make jokes about it, but at the same time I can understand enough Mandarin to know when people are making fun of my Chinese pronounciations or the way I put words together, or even the way I do things.
I used to think I was open-minded but it's getting more and more difficult for me to tolerate these types of things that are said to me everyday(I am not exaggerating this). I stay because I am married to a wonderful Chinese man and if he is approved in May, it will give me a great sense of relief. He is pretty open-minded too and he does his best to understand, but still there are cultural differences that are hard for me to explain to him, so I'm venting here. I am disillusioned and depressed at the moment. I 'm just feeling sorry for myself, hehehe. Thank you all for taking the time to read this.
China has been a very closed society for a long time. They do not understand their language mis- spoken. In America everyone mis-speaks English. We are used to many people using different versions of the language and speaking badly. In science we always say broken English is the international language of science. So most people can not understand you even if you speak Chinese slightly wrong. I know I have trouble with my wife; even if I speak Chinese slightly wrong (to me at least) she can not understand a word I say. So you will have a very hard time getting anyone else to understand you. Maybe if you were a student, it would be easier for the other teachers to accept you. You being a teacher and equal with them, they seem resentful. Sorry no real words of wisdon on how to help you, but keep trying. Your chinese will improve, and i doubt they will change.
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Dude, your registration email bot thingie is SO SLOW. I have a cool name for the Off Topic I want to propose, and since I saw a Roger, could Goats and Sheepes be far behind. Somehow, I think that this forum would NEVER have a fair Goat Vote, though.
-James
Hey, I happen to know you're at work, dude. Do you still have images turned off?
Yes, I do have ANIMATIONS turned off. Does CFV need to send me some 'pics' to get an eMail?
I'n currently logging it as a conspiracy to make my member number over 50...
-James
Have fun with those goats!
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I'm going to visit my lao po next month. We've been tossing around the idea of us taking a trip to Thailand while I'm there, if we can find some relatively cheap plane tickets.
Every source I've found so far says that Chinese nationals will be issued a 15 day visa upon arrival in Thailand. Lao po has found information that says she will not be allowed to leave China unless she already has a visa for Thailand (or any other country, even countries she can supposedly visit visa-free) in her passport.
Anyone have any experience with this? Why would Thailand bother to issue visas upon arrival for Chinese nationals if they can't even leave China without a visa? (Group visits?)
My wife and i went to Thailand, she just went to travel agent and got visa, but she was from the south of Yunnan and they have a special deal to get visa to Thailand easy. She much check her area of chna. To get visa they also required health check.
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Congratulations!! We had an interview, but still not bad. Just a few questions and not much longer.
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Where to begin?
Ok so I went through the first 7 or 8 pages in the forum did not see a topic helpful. So I'm from California and I would like to know what are my best options for my sweetheart to join me in USA.
1. Getting a K-1 visa and coming to the states?
2. Getting documents in USA and going to China and get married?
Seems like option #2 is very convoluted. I understand the Affidavit of Single or Divorced Status. But do I have to get it notarized and also validated throught the California Secretary of State? Also with my divorce papers do I get them translated in the States or in China?
Sorry for questions but I am trying to get things for both options collected so I can basically go either way. But I would appreciate any advice or help so that I get everything I need for my trip to China just in case. Any advice on number of copies to bring would also be nice to know. Many thanks to anyone who can help.
Sincerely,
Troyg
There are some post tracking the time for each. I think that the K1 is a little faster right now. If you have a normal case and things look okay from your end it might be faster, but every case is unique. Some times you must take into account family and other considerations.
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http://www.beliefnet.com/Health/Physical-H...oward-Pain.aspx
I believe this approach is the best for all
Thanks Jin it was a good article. It did not really stress one way or one belief, it stress living in your pain and not avoiding. The avoidance of pain causes the cycle of pain. I imagine many additions and medications is the avoidance of pain. Living thru it and knowing it is okay and you will live; just accepting that we will have pain and sort of move on. Plus, as David and the article said that she does not use the Buddhist language, so a Christian or other faith could use her thoughts to learn how to pray better. Pray is opening yourself to God. Buddhist call it meditation or atheist can call it thinking. This article can be used in all cases. Just leave yourself open to experience pain and to continue.
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We use onesuite.com mostly. On our cell we can program 3 or 4 local numbers all over the US (mobile phones no long distance). Plus, we have it set up on the internet with all of the numbers in our phonebook, so she only has to remember who is what number as she dials on the mobile - very automatic no codes or long numbers to enter. The system will see our phone numbers and not need us to enter any extra codes. That allows us to call any where we are at that time. I think it is 2.2 cents per min right now. They have a toll free number for southern china - that includes sichuan. Her parents can call us and than we call back. The toll free number is expensive, but mostly only use it for emergencies and only one minute. This is easy for us, since we tend to make a lot of calls as we walk at night.
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In China, I stick to the vegetables. I try to minimize the meats. I tell everyone I love the vegetables.
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I was just reading about retiring in Thailand which is quite easy also (in addition to Malaysia) and a former Thai citizen can simply apply for a Thai ID card which grants them all the rights of a Thai citizen INCLUDING OWNING PROPERTY which is normally not allowed for foreigners unless you're willing to take your chances with some "quasi-legal" shenanigans...
Wish China had something like that... China is still my first choice for retirement. I guess, I am thinking to work part time while i am retired. My plan is for the work to get my visa. There must be ways to beat the system.
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If she uses Cash for most of travel she can get big discounts at the travel agents. Maybe not at an airport, but out in the city.
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I wash veg, but do make big mess. I do clean it as I cook, but I do make mess first. Alton Brown is great.
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It's very area specific... some areas hold "Lao Po" as endearing and others not as much...
Quite true, David. I come across this difference often with friends from different areas within China.
My Taiwan friends tell that it's now in vogue (in Taiwan) with the younger set to call their wife Tai Tai.
Every region and family has their own way. Just follow what makes her happy. Do not worry we are well trained and do the same - keep her happy.
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I was told a jade figurine of Kwan Yin on a red string might be a great item to wear this year for us Ox.
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Are you lucky to be an Ox???
Do you have auspiciously ox-like parts? (Please, don't answer that...)
Have you been filming our window?
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I have heard that if you are an Ox i will need to be careful this coming year. What should i do to be careful.
One suggestion was that I should wear red underwear, is this true?
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As the article points out there may be a silver lining to this movement as many well-trained and talented workers from Guangdong return to their roots in the interior of China and bring their skills and business savy home to help finally develop more than just the coastal ciites of China...
I want it documented here that Roger only posted good info and no negative info in this post.
Evolution of Relationship
in Consulate Process: P-3 ~ Interview
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I put our pictues into an album using Photoshop elements and placed captions under each picture with date and location and people in picture. That seemed to work well.